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The news network, which was able to obtain translated copies of the recently-printed books from the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, DC, said that the books teaches ninth graders that the annihilation of Jews is imperative...."The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them," one part reads. "There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."

The books also target homosexuals and recommend amputations for thieves.

And some people think there will be peace. Yeah, and Hell will freeze over. Oh wait, perhaps there will be peace when all those Jews are killed off and Israel is wiped out. Silly me, I have been looking at this whole peace thing the wrong way.

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That line about the tree who calls for Muslims to come kill Jews is a very common line and comes from one of the "hadiths."

There seems to be a real hesitation in the west, and among Jews, to point this out.

While we here in the west tend to be very politically correct and usually try to avoid insulting people from other cultures, in the Arab world they do not seem the least little bit shy about proclaiming a genocidal hatred toward the Jewish people.

And, needless to say, do not expect "progressives" to speak out against Arab or Muslim genocidal Jew hatred. They never will.

I think one reason is the cognitive dissonance it creates. If one is ideologically down on Israel (and all that entails which is a lot,) you de facto take a side. To then disparage the side you "support," is counterintuitive except for the most principled and high minded sort of person; a rarity in these debates since most of the debating is done from a political basis rather than one that rises above politics.

Sure, but what about those who are ideologically up with Israel, i.e., the Jewish people, who absolutely refuse to discuss this problem?

I honestly do not get it.

The genocidal Jew hatred that comes out of mosques in the Arab world is as far from liberalism or progressivism, or even just common human decency, as is possible and, yet, even Jewish liberalism shut their eyes and their mouths and their ears.

It's an amazing handicap and it is entirely foolish, yet they cannot bring themselves to face what is both obvious and dangerous to us as a people.

And, further, I am convinced that the reason that so many liberal Jews cannot face this thing is because then other liberals will call them nasty names and give them the cold shoulder.

Well at some point one gets called a racist for discussing it so yeah, I can see your point. The dKos experience proves the former.What I love about rising above left/right politics is that one's bullshit detector gets pretty finely honed.

I have no problem detecting right-wing talking points and bullshit because I was clued into that by the time that I was 13 or 14 years old. It's left-wing talking points and bullshit that remained tenacious as hell until just these past few years.

It all started with the anti-Zionists on dkos. At first I gave them credibility. I even had Jon the anti-Zionist Jew begin to convince me... believe it or not... that the single-state solution was the way to go, until I quickly realized that neither population actually wanted that.

But, I have to say, relieving oneself of ideology is a motherfucker, if you will kindly excuse the language.

It is a motherfucker, though.

Ideology is about propaganda and propaganda is about controlling the way that people think. What people tend not to understand about how propaganda functions is that it is not necessarily top-down, but can marinate from the bottom-up, as well.

Think about the Protocols in Germany back in the good old days. It was not just a matter of Der Sturmer yammering its hateful nonsense, but of people repeating and repeating repeating that nonsense.

Absolutely on this point. I see it by both sides as well. One side, however, that claims to be about human rights, is helping to dismantle it, and will hopefully discover that they will not escape being targets despite their help, be it unintentional or duplicitous.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.